Our men in al-Sham

Over the last few years, Seth Frantzman and Jonathan Spyer have reported on the ground from Syria and Iraq, as … More

A familial tragedy

Between 1989 and 2000, from the fall of the Berlin Wall until the rise of Vladimir Putin, nearly a million … More

Is it possible to change your entire life? The Legacy, British journalist and Jerusalem Post columnist Melanie Phillips’s latest novel, … More

In his rather radical survey of Jewish literature from antiquity to the last century, Adam Kirsch highlights the importance of … More

In the summer of 2012, the people of Nabi Saleh finally made it to the spring. Every Friday since 2009, … More

For a conflict so often compared to a crusade, the Iraq War has been devastating for Christians in the Middle … More

In the summer of 2014 Jerusalem broke apart, again. In those few bloody months, which began in April with the … More

Food writer Janna Gur’s “Book of New Israeli Food” is one of several recent cookbooks celebrating the rich diversity of … More

Sexist laws and institutions threaten women in Israel, but Arab women are beset from all sides

Is Islam inherently opposed to Western liberalism?

Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s “Guantanamo Diary” has been, as the censors say, heavily redacted

The life and legacy of Rav Kook

The most impressive fact about the 1979 Camp David Accords

I was in New York on September 11th

In 1946, Baghdad was a Jewish town

In portraying a saint-like Begin, Gordis is attempting to silence contemporary critics of today’s Likud-led government

A modern-day tale of love and suspense

A Jew, a woman and Churchill’s favorite spy: Christine Granville, flesh-and-blood hero

Israeli director Dan Shadur talks about his new documentary about life under the Shah

For most of Jewish history, Flavius Josephus was the odd man out

At age 86, Howard Zinn destroyed history

There is a passage in Gideon Lewis-Kraus’ new memoir, “A Sense of Direction,” that will make any secularist smile

Entering the Art and Soul Gallery on Shlomtzion Ha-Malka Street, you exit Jerusalem

Trembling Before G-d begins with ultra-Orthodox Jews wearing sack-cloth